Belt



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BELT. APPLIcATloN lmiao AAPR. 19. 1920.

1,392,319, muted oon 4, 1921.

PATENT OFFICE.

JULI'US E. FRANK, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

BELT.

Speecation of ALetters Patent.

Patented oct. 4., 1921.

Application led April 19, 1920. Serial No. 374,862.

T o @ZZ whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULrUs E. FRANK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Belts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to belts for personal wear and has for its principal object to provide an ornamental, sectionalv or link belt which is not subject to excessive elongation in use and the links of which are relieved of strain. The invention consists principally in providing a relatively non-stretchable cincture extending from end to end of said belt which carries the strain and relieves the 'belt links. The invention furtherconsists in the parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawing, which forms part of this specification and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts wherever they ccur, y

Figure 1 is a plan view of a belt embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of a link of said belt;

Fig. i is a detail perspective view of one of said links; and

Fig. 5 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale of a portion of said belt.

My belt comprises a belt proper or cincture 1 and a plurality of ornamental links 2, preferably made of leather, strung therei on. The middle portion of each of said links has a perforation therein, and each link has transverse slits 3 near the ends. Each of said links is folded lengthwise across the perforated middle portion, and extends through the slits of the next preceding link. The cincture passes through the perforations in said links and lies between the two folds of the links. The belt is provided with a buckle t of any desired kind.

The cincture 1 is a strip of strong leather or any other flexible but relatively nonstretchable material. Preferably the end links of the belt are sewn or otherwise suitably secured to said cincture so as to prevent them from slipping thereon. The cincture may be secured directly to the buckle.

Leather link belts made according to my invention are ornamental in appearance and the links are relieved of strain; so that the beltis not subject to undue elongation. It is obvious that changes may be made in the form and appearance of the links and buckle without departing from my invention and I do not wish to `be limited to the precise construction shown.

That I claim is:

1. A belt comprising a cincture and a plurality of interlocking links strung thereon so as to cover said cincture and so as themselves to be relieved of tensile and shearing stresses.

2. A belt comprising a cincture and a plurality of interlocking ornamental links thereon, said cincture being arranged to withstand all the tensile and shearing stresses when said belt is being worn.

3. A belt comprising a cincture and a plurality of interlocking ornamental leather links strung thereon so as to conceal said cincture and so as themselves to be relieved of tensile an'd shearing stresses.

4. A belt comprising a cincture and a plurality of links strung thereon, each link having a perforation about the middle thereof across which it is folded lengthwise, and having transverse slits near the ends, each successive link extending through the slits of the next preceding link and the cincture extending between the folds of the respective links and through the perforations therein.

A belt comprising a cincture and a plurality of links thereon, each link being perforated to accommodate the cincture and having a transverse slit in an end portion to accommodate the next adjacent link.

6. A belt comprising a cincture and a plurality of links strung thereon, each link having a narrow middle portion with a perforation therein across which it is folded lengthwise and having transverse slits near its ends, each successive link extending through the slits of the next preceding link, and the cincture extending between the folds of the respective links and through the perforations therein.

Signed at St. Louis, Missouri, this 16t day of April, 1920. 1

J ULIUS E. FRANK. 

